Myself : the autobiography of John R. Commons / [John R. Commons]

I. To my "Friday Niters" -- II. North and South -- III. Graduate and teacher -- IV. Five years -- V. Wisconsin.

"Here is the life story — frank, informal, often humorous — of one of the most eminent scholars in the field of labor history and economics that America has produced. John R. Commons (1862-1945) was a pioneer in thought and action and his life was full and significant from the days when he was earning his way through college as a typesetter to the active years in Wisconsin as a trained economist whose advice and cooperation were sought by both State and Federal Governments. Commons' account of his personal experiences and of the evolution of his economic ideas from those experiences adds an important chapter to the record of the period, a period unparalleled in the development and refinement of economic thought. [...] Besides his work as professor in the University of Wisconsin, Commons held numerous other important posts. He was associate director of the National Bureau of Economic Research, chairman of the Unemployment Insurance Board of the Chicago Clothing Trades, and a member of the Wisconsin Industrial Commission, the U. S. Commission on Industrial Relations, and Wisconsin's first minimum wage advisory board. With Robert M. La Follette, Sr., he helped draft the Wisconsin Civil Service Law and the Public Utilities Law. His influence on modern economic thought through his writing and teaching is incalculable." -- from the back cover.

Donation from Karl and Elizabeth Niebyl.